Jan 09
HttpClient looks very nice, as it supports many HTTP actions. I tried the webpage download code, but encountered an encoding issues with Chinese web pages.
Language encoding is always a problem for non-English developers, especially Asian developers, whose languages are encoded in 2 bytes for each character.
After playing with the source code for hours, I finally googled a very simple solution. Here it comes:
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HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
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HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(url);
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method.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.HTTP_CONTENT_CHARSET, "GBK");
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// …. set other parameters
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try {
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int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);
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// other operations
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}
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catch{
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// exception handling
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}
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Though spent hours, I am very glad that the solution is very simple.
